Game Thread Playoffs Round 1, Game 1: Spurs vs Blazers (0-0) (Sun 04/19/2026) [8:00 CDT]

[John B]

Big positives tonight:

Wemby
Kornhub
Vassell

Overall positives:

Fox
Castle

Needs Improvement:

Everyone else

Yet the Spurs still won comfortably

Castle was pretty solid with 17 pts, 7 assists and 7 rebounds with 8-8 from FT.

 

[Robz4000]

Castle was pretty solid with 17 pts, 7 assists and 7 rebounds with 8-8 from FT.

Statline looks fine but 4/13 isn't going to cut it and he let the refs affect his game for most of it tbh.

 

[Ice009]

Statline looks fine but 4/13 isn't going to cut it and he let the refs affect his game for most of it tbh.

I agree for the most part. Before I saw that stat line late in the game, I thought he played worse than those stats indicate.

 

[onechance87]

Castle was pretty solid with 17 pts, 7 assists and 7 rebounds with 8-8 from FT.

He did not play well at all.He was forcing shots,fcking up the momentum.He was obviously frustrated that he wasint getting calls or
knew scoot was outplaying him.Needs to hit his outside shots as well.Thats one of portland obvious game plan was to dare castle to make
outside shots.Hes got to make em pay for it.

 

[Fireball]

The Blazers are just not good overall, so half the Spurs rotation not showing up at all (this includes Harper who only had a great plusminus) is ok in the first round. Still might lead to an extended series if the refs fuck us over on the road. And do not get me started on looking ahead as players do not suddenly get better in 2nd round, so lets see who of Harper, Keldon, Champ, Bryant and Barnes just had a rough game 1 but are fine otherwise.